This week I made the first step towards a speaking (or roaring) dragon by soldering together the wave shield from adafruit industries and testing some of the software. Using the example code audio files, burnie now has the ability to recite pi to... well a lot of digits.

Those aren't just untidy yellow wires either - unfortunately the wave and the arduino mega are not naturally compatable, so there was a little bit of extra soldering and software configuration to get this running. Nothing a bit of debugging and some helpful forum folk couldn't fix.

The audio is a little quiet (who ever heard of a whispering dragon?) so I'm going to have to build an amplifier, but this will work for now so that I can get on with some other construction developments which are underway.